https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/ Thu, 07 May 2026 13:58:05 +0000 MyBB https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/thread-261.html Tue, 20 Jan 2026 01:30:04 +0000 George Brown]]> https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/thread-261.html
I am an ornery geekly old fart well into my geezerhood. I love using Lini: the basic concepts have been very appealing. However arfter too many years with Fedora and Mint, I still feel like a rank newcomer, often overwhelmed by the jargon.

Web searches have ofen resulted in cascading confusion. I have learned  the hard way that much of the advice on the Web is outdated, irrelevant, or just outright bad. I'm still a beginner.

I doddered onto your refreshingly-forthright distro with such a delightful name. I mean, John: you could have been more polite and named it, well, you know: "Darn Small Linux," Or "Gosh-Dang Little Linux." How enticing!

Herewith, I will submit my first question in what looks like the appropriate forum.

Please admit me into your Community of the Damned!

George]]>
I am an ornery geekly old fart well into my geezerhood. I love using Lini: the basic concepts have been very appealing. However arfter too many years with Fedora and Mint, I still feel like a rank newcomer, often overwhelmed by the jargon.

Web searches have ofen resulted in cascading confusion. I have learned  the hard way that much of the advice on the Web is outdated, irrelevant, or just outright bad. I'm still a beginner.

I doddered onto your refreshingly-forthright distro with such a delightful name. I mean, John: you could have been more polite and named it, well, you know: "Darn Small Linux," Or "Gosh-Dang Little Linux." How enticing!

Herewith, I will submit my first question in what looks like the appropriate forum.

Please admit me into your Community of the Damned!

George]]> https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/thread-243.html Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:51:40 +0000 col2025]]> https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/thread-243.html  Happy that the rc7 was made available & supports 32 bit as it has made my slow little netbook usable again 
      alho it has 512mb ram & 8gb ssd the netbook is running smooth with all the software i need installed ready to use,
      one of the main reasons i didn't want to dispose of this netbook is the size 8.9" screen perfect for shoving in bag]]>  Happy that the rc7 was made available & supports 32 bit as it has made my slow little netbook usable again 
      alho it has 512mb ram & 8gb ssd the netbook is running smooth with all the software i need installed ready to use,
      one of the main reasons i didn't want to dispose of this netbook is the size 8.9" screen perfect for shoving in bag]]> https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/thread-236.html Thu, 29 May 2025 17:04:41 +0000 lmemsm]]> https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/thread-236.html
Some of the programs I like are sdlbook and pdftxt for PDF viewing, diffh for graphically displaying differences from diff, abc2midi and abcm2ps for music creation, picaxo (lightweight graphics viewer using SDL), Netrider or Fifth (webkit based web browsers) and DPlus web browser (Dillo fork). sdcv (command line dictionary program, a fork removes glib dependency), ckpass (curses front end to view keepass information), grafx2 or lodepaint (graphics editors), fm (SDL based file manager), flrec/sox (audio player/recorder), nbsdgames (more games along the lines of bsdgames).  There are several others I enjoy building from source and working with too.

I've been trying to move away from heavier GUI toolkits such as GTK and Qt and switch to more lightweight alternatives like FLTK, SDL, Raylib and/or BSDCurses.  Would be curious to hear about other people's favorite lightweight programs.]]>
Some of the programs I like are sdlbook and pdftxt for PDF viewing, diffh for graphically displaying differences from diff, abc2midi and abcm2ps for music creation, picaxo (lightweight graphics viewer using SDL), Netrider or Fifth (webkit based web browsers) and DPlus web browser (Dillo fork). sdcv (command line dictionary program, a fork removes glib dependency), ckpass (curses front end to view keepass information), grafx2 or lodepaint (graphics editors), fm (SDL based file manager), flrec/sox (audio player/recorder), nbsdgames (more games along the lines of bsdgames).  There are several others I enjoy building from source and working with too.

I've been trying to move away from heavier GUI toolkits such as GTK and Qt and switch to more lightweight alternatives like FLTK, SDL, Raylib and/or BSDCurses.  Would be curious to hear about other people's favorite lightweight programs.]]> https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/thread-121.html Sat, 08 Jun 2024 21:07:47 +0000 cedley1969]]> https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/thread-121.html  Bought you a coffee as a thanks for what became a fascinating couple of years squeezing functionality out of something that was probably manufacturer to landfill otherwise.]]>  Bought you a coffee as a thanks for what became a fascinating couple of years squeezing functionality out of something that was probably manufacturer to landfill otherwise.]]> https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/thread-111.html Sun, 02 Jun 2024 15:20:01 +0000 Rantanplan]]> https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/thread-111.html
Je suis un utilisateur final.
J'ai découvert Linux et les distributions légères grâce à ToutouLinux (distribution française dérivée de Puppy Linux).
Puis, la curiosité m'a amené à découvrir d'autres productions légères ou très légères.

Bravo pour cette nouvelle distribution orientée vers les anciens PC 32 bits.
Oeuvre charitable et écologique !

Bonne route sur la voie de la sobriété et de la légèreté.
Continuez avec enthousiasme.

Vive DSL !
Vive la vie !

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Hello DamnSmallLinux 2024,

I am an end (or final ?) user.
I discovered Linux and light distributions thanks to ToutouLinux (French distribution derived from Puppy Linux).
Then, curiosity led me to discover other light or very light productions.
Congratulations for this new distribution oriented towards the old 32-bit PCs.
Charitable and ecological work!
Good luck on the road to sobriety and lightness.
Keep going with enthusiasm.

Long live DSL!
Long live life!]]>
Je suis un utilisateur final.
J'ai découvert Linux et les distributions légères grâce à ToutouLinux (distribution française dérivée de Puppy Linux).
Puis, la curiosité m'a amené à découvrir d'autres productions légères ou très légères.

Bravo pour cette nouvelle distribution orientée vers les anciens PC 32 bits.
Oeuvre charitable et écologique !

Bonne route sur la voie de la sobriété et de la légèreté.
Continuez avec enthousiasme.

Vive DSL !
Vive la vie !

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Hello DamnSmallLinux 2024,

I am an end (or final ?) user.
I discovered Linux and light distributions thanks to ToutouLinux (French distribution derived from Puppy Linux).
Then, curiosity led me to discover other light or very light productions.
Congratulations for this new distribution oriented towards the old 32-bit PCs.
Charitable and ecological work!
Good luck on the road to sobriety and lightness.
Keep going with enthusiasm.

Long live DSL!
Long live life!]]> https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/thread-104.html Mon, 20 May 2024 23:27:16 +0000 JakeBones]]> https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/thread-104.html https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/thread-76.html Thu, 14 Mar 2024 21:01:04 +0000 John]]> https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/thread-76.html https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/thread-75.html Wed, 13 Mar 2024 19:25:05 +0000 meo]]> https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/thread-75.html
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// meo]]> https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/thread-73.html Sat, 09 Mar 2024 10:46:03 +0000 Rev]]> https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/thread-73.html
I am currently writing a  low dependency quasi session manager for JWM.
It is written exclusively in C. It only uses libbsd and libconfuse as dependicies (for now)

Now you are probably wondering why?
Can't I just use Dex? Yes I could, but I want something more fast, something that could potentially run after every login with no performance impact. As for lxsession, I feel it's too intergrated with lxde.

The bare minimum of what this project hopes to implement is the following:

xdg-user-dirs management
Automatic JWM menu updates
New easy config file for managing the look and feel of jwm
XDG Autostart

Overall, this project aims use ideas from different programs like Dex and JWMKit and combine it to make something extremely lightweight yet improving the JWM experience.

So what is currently done you may ask?

Well I only started several days ago but my .desktop parser for the most part works perfectly. It's fast too, unlike all these python scripts out there, haha. 

Right now I'm working on the auto generation config for jwm. The root menu has a few issues where I need to strip %U and %F arguments that require a input. But other that I'm making good progress.

If you guys are interested, I will post a link to my github.

EDIT: Early alpha version is now out for testing!
Please feel free to request any features and report any bugs.
https://github.com/purpasmart96/jwms/releases]]>
I am currently writing a  low dependency quasi session manager for JWM.
It is written exclusively in C. It only uses libbsd and libconfuse as dependicies (for now)

Now you are probably wondering why?
Can't I just use Dex? Yes I could, but I want something more fast, something that could potentially run after every login with no performance impact. As for lxsession, I feel it's too intergrated with lxde.

The bare minimum of what this project hopes to implement is the following:

xdg-user-dirs management
Automatic JWM menu updates
New easy config file for managing the look and feel of jwm
XDG Autostart

Overall, this project aims use ideas from different programs like Dex and JWMKit and combine it to make something extremely lightweight yet improving the JWM experience.

So what is currently done you may ask?

Well I only started several days ago but my .desktop parser for the most part works perfectly. It's fast too, unlike all these python scripts out there, haha. 

Right now I'm working on the auto generation config for jwm. The root menu has a few issues where I need to strip %U and %F arguments that require a input. But other that I'm making good progress.

If you guys are interested, I will post a link to my github.

EDIT: Early alpha version is now out for testing!
Please feel free to request any features and report any bugs.
https://github.com/purpasmart96/jwms/releases]]> https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/thread-71.html Mon, 04 Mar 2024 16:43:05 +0000 meo]]> https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/thread-71.html
// meo]]>
// meo]]> https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/thread-70.html Sat, 02 Mar 2024 23:25:31 +0000 John]]> https://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/thread-70.html
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